Mar 13, 2013 · Who still speaks Latin? Believe it or not, there's a whole living Latin movement. People who are trying to get Latin to be used as a spoken language, not just treating it as a dead language that's on a page, that you might read in a Latin class, but actually a language you can speak conversationally.

Answered 3 years ago · Author has 499 answers and 384.8K answer views. Of course, many people do. They are for the most part theologians (who usually speak also Old Greek, especially those of the East Christian Church). Another group of …

Yes, people do speak Latin, and they most certainly write it. …It’s true that there are no native Latin speakers today – although it’s worth noting that Latin is still the official language of Vatican City.

Do people still speak Latin? Latin is now considered a dead language, meaning it’s still used in specific contexts, but does not have any native speakers. … In historical terms, Latin didn’t die so much as it changed — into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian.

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That all said, the community of people trying to actually speak and use a "living" Latin is growing, which is rather good. As to estimates for how many people in the world can speak truly fluent Latin, I'd say 100 is possibly a generous estimate, though there are surely many, many more who can speak Latin at a level below fluency. Also the Catholic Church uses Ecclesiastical Latin …